Re-Advertisement: Security Manager, P-4, Fixed Term Position, ECAMENA RO, Amman, Jordan, #00136998

Organizational Context

UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential. The ECAMENA Regional Office supports this mission across a diverse region facing complex challenges like conflict, migration, and economic volatility, requiring agile approaches and strengthened risk management.

Job Purpose

The Security Manager (P-4) serves as the Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security for the ECAMENA Regional Office, providing high-quality security leadership, analysis, and technical expertise. This role is crucial for enabling acceptance, access, and operational continuity across the region. The incumbent will play a leading technical role in advancing strategic security risk management, evidence-informed analysis, region-wide security mainstreaming, and inter-agency coordination. They will offer authoritative technical advice to senior management on person-centered security risk management, security procedures, contingency planning, preparedness, access strategies, compliance, and operational security requirements. The position is key to strengthening security analysis and risk mitigation measures in complex and high-risk environments, thereby reducing risks to personnel, assets, and programmes.

Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Adviser Security (P-5), the Security Manager (P-4) will provide high-quality security leadership, analysis, and technical expertise to the Regional Office and Country Offices across the ECAMENA region. The post plays a leading technical role in advancing strategic security risk management, evidence-informed analysis, region-wide security mainstreaming, and inter-agency coordination. The incumbent will provide authoritative technical advice, within established parameters, to senior regional and country management on person-centered security risk management approaches, broader security procedures, contingency planning, preparedness, access-related strategies, compliance, and operational security requirements. The role serves as a key technical expert to Country Offices in strengthening security analysis and risk mitigation measures and contributes to reducing risks to personnel, eligible family members, premises, assets, programmes, and operations in complex and high-risk environments. The incumbent also supports regional emergency response through surge deployments, country missions, capacity building, training, and thematic analysis of insecure environments, while ensuring the security function is a critical enabler of acceptance, access, operational continuity, and UNICEF’s ability to stay and deliver across the ECAMENA region.

Work Experience

A minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience in security management, risk assessment, and crisis response, preferably in an international or humanitarian context. Experience in complex and high-risk environments is essential. Experience with UN security management systems and procedures is desirable.

Skills

Security Risk Management, Security Analysis, Crisis Response, Contingency Planning, Inter-agency Coordination, Risk Assessment, Security Procedures, Capacity Building, Training, Leadership, Technical Expertise, Communication

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